Paper love matters

My lovely grandmother Mut Lee Sze passed away in 2015. These three art pieces are dedicated to her. My inspiration comes from the paper offerings we burn for her to use in the dead dimension. The blue car comes with her driver, her housemaid, and they are burning with fire along with spells to make sure she receives them. In a dream, she came to me to thank me for her gifts.

Medium: recycled fabric collage

Size: 16"x24"

SFFW batch

Designed a batch for San Francisco Fashion Week 2016.

Reborn

Reborn from the death. Phoenix is a fire phoenix that gain life from the fire.

Reborn

Reborn from the death. Phoenix is a fire phoenix that gain life from the fire.

Odd Mice Apartment

The Odd Mice Apartment

This is a mouse family story vs my family...a family documentary in 2006.

Pencil Dance

chopping the falling girl - daft punk parody

A music piece from drawing on paper to 3d modeling.

Sad Dance

Daft punk- get lucky parody

A music piece from drawing on paper to 3d modeling.

You can't make everyone happy

A lighthearted photographic piece while I travel to San Francisco.

Donut Worry Be Happy

A lighthearted photographic piece while I travel to San Francisco.

Alice in Halloween Party

Halloween is coming up, I decided to make a bloody version of Mad Tea Party. Here is the process, I learn that my color pencils can blend with water, also need to train myself to freehand perfect circle again. Also after I put the anti-smudge spray, the color pencil melt a bit and now it is toward neon looking....which is a happy accident.

Depression book

Medium: digital art help by computer art generatorDimension: 9" x 9"Story Behind: I got diagnosis with depression back in 2013, and these art pieces were part of the therapy back then. Took me 3 years to gather my mind and strong enough to come up the typographic experiment in book format, along with self-help.

Move On Without your Mix

Medium: color markers on paperDimension: 11" x 5.5"Story Behind: I had an experience to hang out with DJ, and when I saw him mixing his beats and rhythms I decided to mixed lyrics with my imaginations down to the paper for a heart broken illustrated book.Songs are from early 80s included:

Pegasus Hybrid

Medium: color pencil on black canvasDimension: 18" x 24"Story Behind: I often dreamed myself as a pegasus hybrid that has unicorn horn. I fly across the golden crystal city and see through all the people live inside peacefully and happy. Perhaps, this is a self portrait in dreamland.The process can be view here.

Last Kiss

Medium: color pencil on black canvasDimension: 18" x 24"Story Behind: Strawberry passed away on June 8, 2015. During her last presence she struggled to walk toward to Daiquiri (my other feline) to give her a farewell kiss. The moment I felt true love, no matter how Daiquiri disliked her, Strawberry still want to give her the best memory as possible, even she couldn't walk straight and I have to hold her toward Daiquiri.In memory of Strawberry, who lives colorful and short.The process can be view here.

Computer Stare

Medium: color pencil and pastel on white canvasDimension: 5" x 5"Story Behind: John is a software engineer and always stare on the computer's terminal working his logic out. This is a quick sketch while he is working away.

Designer's life

Medium: color pencil and pastel on white canvasDimension: 5" x 5"Story Behind: During daytime, I am a graphic designer who draws, and codes. So incorporated all the technology icons for the tools I usually used, this painting come out as computer pours out creativity. This is a salute to technology we have in 2014.

Salute to Android

Medium: color pencil and pastel on white canvasDimension: 5" x 5"Story Behind: This is a salute to the amazing technology giant Google. I specially research of all the codename for each Android version like Donut, Cupcake, Ice-cream sandwich, Gingerbread, Eclair and Jellybean, which was the current version of the Android system (4) in 2014.

Fear love is to fear life

Medium: color marker on custom wood panelDimension: 5.5" x 11"Story Behind: Once I found this quote "Fear love is to fear life and those who fear life are already three parts dead" and decided to use my typography skills as an expression of the living in present, be here now attitude.

SARS

Medium: color marker, spray paint and sparkles on found wood panelDimension: 9" x 11"Story Behind: During SARS(Severe acute respiratory syndrome) era in Hong Kong in 2003, I feel sad for the ones who suffer SARS in Hong Kong. I decided to draw out the dark sun symbolized the people still maintain a normal life during that time.

Family Portrait

Medium: digital in illustratorDimension: 8.5" x 11"Story Behind: It was my grandfather's 85 birthday, and we always can't get together as a whole. So I decided to draw my family out as a whole drawing.

Music cat

Medium: kid size scratch pad with colorful backgroundDimension: 8.5" x 11"Story Behind: This is the early stage of explore the idea of drawing fur by fur, and this becomes the main skill of my later painting. Idea behind is music makes one's life colorful within.

Unicorn walks the rainbow

Medium: color marker on paperDimension: 8.5" x 11"Story Behind: I am the unicorn pegasus that poop out rainbows with rain. I love unicorn and decided to make a self portrait of it.

Pirate ship

Medium: color marker on paperDimension: 8.5" x 11"Story Behind: I have a friend who loves pirate ship and I decided to make one specially for him.

Strawberry Lolita

Medium: digital vector in illustratorDimension: 8.5" x 11"Story Behind: This piece is published in the book of Lolita with many other Japanese Lolita fashion followers' art pieces, the subject is based on my sweet strawberry twin Val who also is a sweet Lolita and dedicated to her.

Lolita Self of Wonder

Medium: digital vector in illustratorDimension: 8.5" x 11"Story Behind: This piece is published in the book of Lolita with many other Japanese Lolita fashion followers' art pieces, the subject is based on myself who dressed up in Japanese Gothic Lolita Fashion and see the world through sweet and gothic eyes.

Free(dom)

Medium: color pencil, marker and pastel on black illustration boardDimension: 11" x 17"Story Behind: The idea behind this painting is to free all the bondage dominant power, the bloody flower grew out from the extension of the cage.

Alpha to Omega

Medium: neon color pencil and marker on white canvasDimension: 5" x 5"Story Behind: Alpha (alpha (Α or α)) and Omega (omega (Ω or ω)), are the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet, and a title of Christ or of God in the Book of Revelation. This couple of letters are used as Christian symbols, and are often combined with the Cross, Chi-rho, or other Christian symbols.

Yin Yang Love

Medium: neon color marker on white circular canvasDimension: 30" x 30"Story Behind: This is a commissioned piece from a dear single friend, and he loves Pablo Neruda and we picked parts of two poems to tell a story.The white part of the yang (bright side):(Lovely One —Pablo Neruda (1924))There is nothing like your hips, Perhaps earth has In some hidden place The curve and the fragrance of your body,The black part of the yin (dark size):(Tonight I Can Write the Saddest Lines —Pablo Neruda (1924))To hear the immense night, still more immense without her. And the verse falls to the soul like dew to the pasture.

Pirate

Medium: color marker on white canvasDimension: 5" x 5"Story Behind: I have a friend who loves pirate ship and I decided to make one a pirate specially for him.

Unicorn body pillow

Medium: faux white fur and rainbow fur fabric with stuffingDimension: 21" x 52"Story Behind: I want a huge body pillow, but I can not found what I want. A skinny rainbow unicorn so I decided to make one on my own.Process can be view here.